To access the Media Center subscription databases:
Go to the BRRHS home page: http://www.brrsd.net/curric/HS/library/index.html
On Left sidebar - Select HS Library
You will be directed to the BRRHS Library Webpage, where you can view a list of all the Subscription Databases. Click on the link to the database that you want to search and enter the User ID and Password in the login page.
ID: nj08807
Password: panthers
You may also access selected BRRHS databases through the links below:
There is a tutorial available when you click on the link above.
Click on the icon on your PC desktop for Spectrum Patron's Catalog to search for books in the BRRHS Library.
Suggested Databases:
ABC-CLIO You can search this database for suggestions for different case topics. Make sure to select "American Government" when performing your search, and then type in "supreme court." This database also provides a key for citation in MLA style!
Historical New York Times: You can enter a Keyword search, and then select your area of interest categorized by dates (see tabs at top of results list). Or, you can limit your search by using the Advanced Search feature, by defining a specific date range, article type (use check boxes), title or author.
CQ's Supreme Court Collection: The initial search page provides options for you to search by keyword or to access a list of case topics that will bring you to the full text of the case decision.
Click on the "Cite Now" tab at the top of the case description, and select the MLA format.
US Supreme Court Opinons You can use this link to connect to the most recent opinions of the US Supreme Court, You will be able to access the "slip opinons," which are the second versions of an opinion.These are sent to the printer later in the day on which the "bench" opinion is released by the Court. Each slip opinion has the same elements as the bench opinion--majority or plurality opinion, concurrences or dissents, and a prefatory syllabus--but may contain corrections not appearing in the bench opinion.
Works Cited
MLA Citation Examples: This link will bring you to the BRRHS Library page, with examples of MLA citation formats.
Citing a Direct Quote in MLA Format
Writers often include relevant source material word for word in their own papers.
Example:
"In speaking about the current situation of Black women writers, it is important to remember that the existence of a feminist movement was an essential precondition to the growth of feminist literature, criticism, and women's studies, which focused at the beginning almost entirely upon investigations of literature" (Smith 170). NOTE: There is no comma between the author's last name and the page number unless you are citing an electronic source with an abbreviation such as (Smith, par. 3). Here, the citation would refer to the third paragraph of an electronic source. Also, the parentheses always come after the final quotation mark, but before the punctuation at the end of the sentence.
An interested reader will then go to "Smith" in your Works Cited list and find the bibliographic information for an article in an edited anthology.
Citing Attribution
Another use of source material is to attribute it to the author within the text of your paper. Incorporate the author's name into your use of the quotation or information you are using and put only the page number in parentheses at the end of the sentence.
Example:
Barbara Smith reminds us in her well-known article, "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism," that when "speaking about the current situation of Black women writers, it is important to remember that the existence of a feminist movement was an essential precondition to the growth of feminist literature, criticism, and women's studies, which focused at the beginning almost entirely upon investigations of literature" (170).
US Supreme Court OpinionsSupreme Court Cases
To access the Media Center subscription databases:
Go to the BRRHS home page: http://www.brrsd.net/curric/HS/library/index.html
On Left sidebar - Select HS Library
You will be directed to the BRRHS Library Webpage, where you can view a list of all the Subscription Databases. Click on the link to the database that you want to search and enter the User ID and Password in the login page.
ID: nj08807
Password: panthers
You may also access selected BRRHS databases through the links below:
BRRHS Spectrum Online Catalog:
There is a tutorial available when you click on the link above.Click on the icon on your PC desktop for Spectrum Patron's Catalog to search for books in the BRRHS Library.
Suggested Databases:
ABC-CLIO You can search this database for suggestions for different case topics. Make sure to select "American Government" when performing your search, and then type in "supreme court." This database also provides a key for citation in MLA style!
Historical New York Times: You can enter a Keyword search, and then select your area of interest categorized by dates (see tabs at top of results list). Or, you can limit your search by using the Advanced Search feature, by defining a specific date range, article type (use check boxes), title or author.
CQ's Supreme Court Collection: The initial search page provides options for you to search by keyword or to access a list of case topics that will bring you to the full text of the case decision.
Click on the "Cite Now" tab at the top of the case description, and select the MLA format.
US Supreme Court Opinons You can use this link to connect to the most recent opinions of the US Supreme Court, You will be able to access the "slip opinons," which are the second versions of an opinion.These are sent to the printer later in the day on which the "bench" opinion is released by the Court. Each slip opinion has the same elements as the bench opinion--majority or plurality opinion, concurrences or dissents, and a prefatory syllabus--but may contain corrections not appearing in the bench opinion.
Works Cited
MLA Citation Examples: This link will bring you to the BRRHS Library page, with examples of MLA citation formats.
Citing a Direct Quote in MLA Format
Writers often include relevant source material word for word in their own papers.
Example:
"In speaking about the current situation of Black women writers, it is important to remember that the existence of a feminist movement was an essential precondition to the growth of feminist literature, criticism, and women's studies, which focused at the beginning almost entirely upon investigations of literature" (Smith 170).
NOTE: There is no comma between the author's last name and the page number unless you are citing an electronic source with an abbreviation such as (Smith, par. 3). Here, the citation would refer to the third paragraph of an electronic source. Also, the parentheses always come after the final quotation mark, but before the punctuation at the end of the sentence.
An interested reader will then go to "Smith" in your Works Cited list and find the bibliographic information for an article in an edited anthology.
Citing Attribution
Another use of source material is to attribute it to the author within the text of your paper. Incorporate the author's name into your use of the quotation or information you are using and put only the page number in parentheses at the end of the sentence.
Example:
Barbara Smith reminds us in her well-known article, "Toward a Black Feminist Criticism," that when "speaking about the current situation of Black women writers, it is important to remember that the existence of a feminist movement was an essential precondition to the growth of feminist literature, criticism, and women's studies, which focused at the beginning almost entirely upon investigations of literature" (170).
Source:
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/mla.html